kat donegan 🇵🇸✊uk gardeners: is this spinach? please, help. i don't remember planting any & this has sprung up in my garden. thank you for preventing a potential poisoning. :)
#bloomscrolling #plantID #gardening
#bloomscrolling #plantID #gardening
Vashti@kathimmel not dock at all, look at the arrowhead leaf shape. Might be cuckoo pint/lords and ladies which is poisonous. Definitely not spinach
@kathimmel here's cuckoo pint to compare. Later in the year it will put up an unmistakable stem of red berries in a hood.
@kathimmel To be really clear, this is a poisonous plant that grows wild in the UK and commonly pops up from nowhere in gardens as a weed.
robtherunt🌱💚@vashti @kathimmel
Ahem! Polite interjection if I may.
There is no such thing as a weed, merely plants that are considered to be in inconvenient situations. 😬
Lords n Ladies is a great plant for wildlife, though it can get a bit out of hand. It may be poisonous to humans, but other creatures love it. And let’s face it, nature certainly needs a hand right now.
Ok, interjection over. Thank you 😁
@robtherunt @vashti you're right, you're right. that's the way i feel. i just didn't trust myself to remember what it was & also worried that my dog might snuffle it.
i feel shite, now. :( should have left it.
i feel shite, now. :( should have left it.
@kathimmel @vashti
Maybe it’s still salvageable? They grow via runners I think, so could possibly be ok, unless you chopped it up?
We certainly have a policy in our garden of “if it likes it there, it must be ok”. Though I am tested by bindweed and bramble haha!
@robtherunt @vashti i hadn't annihilated it, so have replanted.
yeah, i like that philosophy (even whilst also engaged in personal battles with bramble).
yeah, i like that philosophy (even whilst also engaged in personal battles with bramble).
@robtherunt @vashti well, i'll be...erm...stalking it now, checking for signs of recovery.